Dirk Brauns

Dirk Brauns (born 1968 in East Berlin ) is a German writer.

Life

Dirk Brauns grew up in East Berlin and after graduating from high school did three years of military service in the National People's Army . From 1990 to 1993 he studied dramaturgy and scenic writing at the Berlin University of the Arts . From 1999 he worked as a newspaper correspondent in Beijing, Warsaw and Minsk and wrote for Die Woche , Berliner Zeitung and Wirtschaftswoche , among others . He has lived in Upper Bavaria since 2013.

Brauns was invited to the Days of German-Language Literature in Klagenfurt in 1993 . In 2013 his debut novel was published in the interior of the country . His documentary novel Café Auschwitz was first published in Polish in 2013.

Works (selection)

• Berlin-Munich, on foot . Stuttgart: Quell, 1997
• Inside the country: Roman . Berlin: Galiani, 2012
  • Radio play adaptation by Stefan Kanis , 2013
• Auschwitz cafe . Preface by Zofia Posmysz-Piasecka . Translation of Wojciech Włoskowicz. Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Akcent, 2013
  • Café Auschwitz: Roman . Berlin: KLAK, 2015
• We have to be gone then: Roman . Berlin: Galiani, 2016
• The inconspicuous: Roman . Berlin: Galiani, 2019

Web links

• Literature by and about Dirk Brauns in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Dirk Brauns in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Short biography and reviews of works by Dirk Brauns at perlentaucher.de
• Dirk Brauns , website
• Sophie Obwexer: Dirk Brauns , at Literaturportal Bayern
• Dirk Brauns , at Kiepenheuer and Witsch